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mallamp posted:I love Roth, but in a world where you have to (at least pretend to) be feminist to be part of 'intelligentsia', it's quite a push to call him "objectively great/canon" author. Same with Updike. mallamp posted:Fun Home has pretty good story (I'm not even that feminist/interested in lbgt stuff), mallamp posted:You must be WHITE MALE without A VAGINA who just MALEGAZED it through and didn't get it. You probably vote for Donald Trump too and your grandfather is secretly Hitler. mallamp posted:It does break my heart that this internet discussion forum Something Awful is so patriarchal. That registration fee for staters. Should be 7,5-8$ for women.
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mallamp posted:It does break my heart that this internet discussion forum Something Awful is so patriarchal. That registration fee for staters. Should be 7,5-8$ for women. go back to gbs
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:you won't believe these extremely Woke opinions about the Matriarchy from Real Literature Poster mallamp lol
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Chamberk posted:ACTUALLY, i understand that they're important but it can be frustrating when the narrative and characters are put aside for 30 pages to talk about different parts of the whale. i'm not saying Melville did a bad job, it's just that reading this book requires a bit more work and some adjustment from my usual expectations for a story. Do you man. It's a valid complaint. As Mamet said: The schoolmaster’s bad enough in the schoolroom; I prefer to keep him out of my bookshelf.
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mallamp posted:It does break my heart that this internet discussion forum Something Awful is so patriarchal. That registration fee for staters. Should be 7,5-8$ for women. Let's not be crass and dumb.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:you won't believe these extremely Woke opinions about the Matriarchy from Real Literature Poster mallamp lol
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Its too late for us... the book readers... the... the feminists have taken over... Please mallamp, flee flee and tell the... others... Go...warn... the... ggaaammmeeerrrssss
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mewse posted:What do you guys think about GamerGate? I think it has no place in this thread
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mewse posted:What do you guys think about GamerGate? Big fan of ants
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I think it has no place in this thread It's place is in the kitchen
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hey guys remember when they made a video game out of Dante's Inferno, a book that doesn't even have action in an Aristotlean sense
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Mel Mudkiper posted:hey guys remember when they made a video game out of Dante's Inferno, a book that doesn't even have action in an Aristotlean sense Remember when EA paid some actors to protest Dante's Inferno at E3 to drum up interest in a game no one has ever given a poo poo about
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Smoking Crow posted:Remember when EA paid some actors to protest Dante's Inferno at E3 to drum up interest in a game no one has ever given a poo poo about Cleopatra shot snakes out of her nips
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at the date posted:Quit Being a loving Child Blind Assassin is my favorite Atwood by far but the present-day "Iris is old" parts are wayyy less interesting than the sci-fi story or the story from the past. Still, it all comes together rather beautifully at the end there - while I like Atwood's sci-fi a good bit, I thought this was her masterpiece.
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Remember I'm 17yo frat boy irl, you can't blame me for what I am brosmewse posted:What do you guys think about GamerGate? One thing I dislike more than radical feminists is neckbeards who complain about women in their retarded inferior entertainment form Actually I like some radical feminists if someone Camille Paglia counts as one I don't know, is Joyce Carol Oates feminist? She's hella cool
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Mel Mudkiper posted:
I got so mad about that when I heard. The Divine Comedy is a masterpiece amongst masterpieces, that could have been turned into a beautiful and atmospheric game, and you decide to make another God of War clone?
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I'm holding out for their action-packed Dante's Paradiso. They're already calling it the GTA of the Spheres.
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Press X to lament the story of Ugolino
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whatI remember from that game is that it was trying way too hard to be edgy and satan had a massive D
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god dammit I forgot how many books come out in January. I am trying to keep to my big book plan but there are four books out in the first three weeks of the year I already want to read.
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blue squares posted:I'm not very good at paying attention to whats coming out So far we got My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist - Sunil Yapa What Belongs to You - Garth Greenwell The Crooked House - Christobel Kent
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The shack had a pristine copy of The Man Without Qualities, it'd have been a steal if I've not already got a copy on my bedstand I've been diligently ignoring.
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Never heard of any of those. I'm back to A Little Life after a month or so of sperging out to wizards and space ships
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blue squares posted:Never heard of any of those. Gotta up your game son good resources to have you finger on that pulse https://www.npr.org/books https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/index.html https://www.nytimes.com/section/books/review
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my library sucks. the only semi-new books they have are Fates and Furies and Between the World and Me, which each have a 3 month waiting period.
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WatermelonGun posted:my library sucks. the only semi-new books they have are Fates and Furies and Between the World and Me, which each have a 3 month waiting period. There's worse libraries. My sister forgot about a bookmark in the Hunchback of Notre Dame when she returned it. When she borrowed it again after a year had passed the bookmark was still there untouched.
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State funded universities require their libraries to allow state residents to use their services, often for a small registration fee. If there is a state funded university near you, sign up for their library and you can use the global CAT
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Chamberk posted:Blind Assassin is my favorite Atwood by far but the present-day "Iris is old" parts are wayyy less interesting than the sci-fi story or the story from the past. Still, it all comes together rather beautifully at the end there - while I like Atwood's sci-fi a good bit, I thought this was her masterpiece. I think Cat's Eye is probs her masterpiece. It's even less sci-fi (it has a little bit of the Slaughterhouse Five-style 'unstuck in time' stuff, that's about it) but as a chronicle of abusive friendships and horribly scarring girlhoods, it's second to none. Popular Human fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Jan 19, 2016 |
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I'm reading Atwood's survival: a thematic guide to Canadian lit. In the preface and introduction she comes off as a giant wanker but she is a great writer so I can deal with it. I do prefer Alice Munro though!
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Lumius posted:I do prefer Alice Munro though! That is the correct opinion.
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Lumius posted:I'm reading Atwood's survival: a thematic guide to Canadian lit. In the preface and introduction she comes off as a giant wanker but she is a great writer so I can deal with it. I do prefer Alice Munro though! As a Canadian I can safely say the best way to get into Canadian Lit is to forget about 99% of it entirely and just act like you've read the palatable other 1%. 
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I love Atwood, and/but my favorite of hers is Alias Grace, in which she is at her least Atwoodian. (Conversely, my other favorite of hers -- The Robber Bride -- is tied with The Blind Assassin for being the most Atwoodian, but mostly in just the Roz chapters, so it's bearable.) And by Atwoodian I mean that particular tone which you find irritating in the Iris chapters in The Blind Assassin. That's like distilled essence of Atwood right there, and her writing is better when she keeps that poo poo in check.
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A Little Life  Everyone should read this book. I'll post a long carepost once I've finished. Also read City on Fire.
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Jeep posted:As a Canadian I can safely say the best way to get into Canadian Lit is to forget about 99% of it entirely and just act like you've read the palatable other 1%. Cananda has one of the best lit scenes: Heather O'Neill, David Mcgimpsey, Guillaume Morissette, Spencer Gordon, and Arjun Basu are all cool/interesting writers. Canada's been crushing the US in recent years. e: forgot to mention Christian loving Bök who wrote a poem in DNA. iccyelf fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Jan 20, 2016 |
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blue squares posted:A Little Life That's what I've heard to. Should I do City or Little Life next after Elena Ferrante?
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